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authorLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2017-05-18 16:11:11 +0200
committerLukas Larsson <[email protected]>2017-05-23 14:47:04 +0200
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otp: Extend secure distribution docs warnings
Warnings have been added to the relevant documentation about not using un-secure distributed nodes in exposed environments.
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<p>Let us rewrite the ping pong program with "ping" and "pong"
on different computers. First a few things
are needed to set up to get this to work. The distributed Erlang
- implementation provides a basic security mechanism to prevent
- unauthorized access to an Erlang system on another computer.
+ implementation provides a very basic authentication mechanism to prevent
+ unintentional access to an Erlang system on another computer.
Erlang systems which talk to each other must have
the same <em>magic cookie</em>. The easiest way to achieve this
is by having a file called <c>.erlang.cookie</c> in your home